JANUARY
TEA WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF GREECE
POSTPONED - Due to COVID
Saturday, January 22, 2022
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Webinars
February 19, 2022
at 1:00 pm (ET)
"The Science of Happiness"
by Dr. George Chrousos
This presentation will cover:
The presenter will suggest how to prevent and reverse the chronic effects and how to achieve psychosomatic health, happiness, and eudaimonia, together with healthy longevity.
George P. Chrousos MD, ScD, MACE, MACP, FRCP
George P. Chrousos is Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus, Holder, UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care, Director of the University Research Institute on Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Head of the Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Professor Chrousos pioneered studies that elucidated the effects of stress on the organism at the behavioral, neuroendocrine, cellular, and molecular levels and made fundamental contributions to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of pituitary, adrenal and stress-related complex pathologies, i.e., major depression, obesity/metabolic syndrome, and autoimmune and inflammatory, reproductive, and sleep disorders. He made seminal observations in the glucocorticoid signaling system of the cell and deciphered some of its key clinical implications. His work has been cited over 172,000 times (H-index 199) (Google Scholar Aug 2021) and he has been a highly cited physician-scientist (ISI) in both Clinical Medicine and Biology and Biochemistry. He is among the 200 most cited scientists in the world. He is the recipient of 2014 Conrad Koch Award of the US Endocrine Society and Holder of the 2011 John Kluge Chair on Technology and Society of the US Library of Congress. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea and the US National Academy of Medicine.
- The concepts of Complexity, Homeostasis, Stress, Cacostasis, Hyperstasis and Psychosomatic Resilience;
- Discussion of the mechanisms of physical and emotional stress and the critical functions of the reward system of the brain;
- Analysis of the acute and chronic effects of stress as causes of acute and chronic human mental and body pathology.
The presenter will suggest how to prevent and reverse the chronic effects and how to achieve psychosomatic health, happiness, and eudaimonia, together with healthy longevity.
George P. Chrousos MD, ScD, MACE, MACP, FRCP
George P. Chrousos is Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus, Holder, UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care, Director of the University Research Institute on Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Head of the Laboratory of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Professor Chrousos pioneered studies that elucidated the effects of stress on the organism at the behavioral, neuroendocrine, cellular, and molecular levels and made fundamental contributions to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of pituitary, adrenal and stress-related complex pathologies, i.e., major depression, obesity/metabolic syndrome, and autoimmune and inflammatory, reproductive, and sleep disorders. He made seminal observations in the glucocorticoid signaling system of the cell and deciphered some of its key clinical implications. His work has been cited over 172,000 times (H-index 199) (Google Scholar Aug 2021) and he has been a highly cited physician-scientist (ISI) in both Clinical Medicine and Biology and Biochemistry. He is among the 200 most cited scientists in the world. He is the recipient of 2014 Conrad Koch Award of the US Endocrine Society and Holder of the 2011 John Kluge Chair on Technology and Society of the US Library of Congress. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea and the US National Academy of Medicine.
March 2022
“The Healthiest Diet for You”
By Dr. Artemis Simopoulos
More information coming soon!
